Search for new fermions ("quirks") at the Fermilab Tevatron Collider

Collaboration, D0 and Bertram, Iain and Borissov, Guennadi and Fox, Harald and Williams, Mark and Ratoff, Peter and Love, Peter and Sopczak, Andre (2010) Search for new fermions ("quirks") at the Fermilab Tevatron Collider. Physical review letters, 105 (21). ISSN 1079-7114

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Abstract

We report results of a search for particles with anomalously high ionization in events with a high transverse energy jet and large missing transverse energy in $2.4$ fb$^{-1}$ of integrated luminosity collected by the D0 experiment at the Fermilab Tevatron $p\bar{p}$ collider. Production of such particles (quirks) is expected in scenarios with extra QCD-like {\it SU(N)} sectors, and this study is the first dedicated search for such signatures. We find no evidence of a signal and set a lower mass limit of 107 ~GeV for the mass of a charged quirk with strong dynamics scale $\Lambda$ in the range from 10 keV to 1 MeV.

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Physical review letters
© 2010 The American Physical Society submitted to Phys. Rev. Letters
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25 Apr 2013 08:43
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